[Catalyst] Thoughts On GeoIP Modules?

[Andy Dorman]

Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
 > I have used it pretty heavily in the past and been happy with it. I am not 
sure if the geo-location stuff in the way you want to use it will be successful 
however since I have not used it for those purposes. So the problem your 
experiencing is what exactly? Automated signups or manual signups that get 
abused in other ways?
 >

The problem so far is manual sign ups for accounts that are then abused.  And in 
analyzing what happened we have noticed that many of the abused accounts were 
signed up from one or two countries.  We think that geoIP restrictions could cut 
our abused account sign ups in half at least.

Just like spam filtering, there is no magic solution to it.  But hopefully we 
can cut chunks off the problem in several different ways (erCaptcha, GeoIP, 
etc.) and get it down to a manageable size.

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